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Comparing "yihou" and "zhihou"
... Subj. + Specified Time + 以后／之后 + Verb In situations something happens after ''something else'', you can use 以后. The stipulation with this is that ...

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Expressing "be going to" with "yao"
... planning to go home after getting off work? See also About to happen with "le" Wanting to do something with "yao" Auxiliary verb "hui ...

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Time adverb
... 再又 for past repetition. The event has happened twice. 再 for repetition in the future. The event has happened once so far. 又 may be used for ...

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Comparing "benlai" and "yuanlai"
... or an adverb. 本来 + 是 for a Change of Plans If something happened unexpectedly later, 本来 is preferred rather than 原来 considering there is a ...

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Expressing "all at once" with "yixiazi"
... 一下子 (yīxiàzi) is a very informal expression to describe how fast things happened. It usually touches upon sudden or severe changes in a very short ...

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Expressing "finally" with "zhongyu"
... after a long wait. Usually the speaker is looking forward to what is happening at long last, and thus, 终于 (zhōngyú) typically carries a sense of ...

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Expressing "what if" with "wanyi"
... fāshēng zhè zhǒng qíngkuàng, mǎshàng bàojǐng.In the unlikely event that this happens, call the police immediately. 以防万一(yǐfángwànyī) as "just in ...

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Expressing "originally" with "benlai"
... ." Use it when you need to explain that happened unexpectedly later. Since the action has already happened, the The "shi... de" construction for ...

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Expressing "once" with "cengjing"
... verb phrases in a sentence. It adds the sense of "once" having happened (the "once upon a time" meaning of "once"), sometimes translated as "ever ...

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Expressing "and then" with "yushi"
... followed by the second event. 于是 can only be used to recount events that happened in the past. 因此 is more formal and mostly used in writing. 于是 ...

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Simple rhetorical questions
... incredulity. The speaker clearly thinks this shouldn't have happened, or thought it couldn't have happened. 谁让你……？ The third one is exclusively used ...

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Conjunction
... cannot just be at the end of the sentence, as sometimes happens in English. Unlike Reduplication of adjectives adjectives and Verb reduplication ...

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Sequencing events in time
... structures are used in Chinese to put events in order as they happened through time. They are organized according to our grammar points by level ...

193 bytes (30 words) - 09:25, 31 May 2013
Expressing frequency
... structures are used to express how often something does or doesn't happen. They are organized according to our grammar points by level . CF ...

203 bytes (29 words) - 09:04, 14 June 2013
Referring to simultaneous events
... are structures that Chinese uses to talk about conditions or events that happen at the same time. They are organized according to our grammar points ...

217 bytes (33 words) - 04:07, 10 July 2013
Expressing possibility
The following structures used to express the possibility of something happening in Chinese are organized according to our grammar points by level . ...

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Location complement
... place phrase should be used and not a location complement：我在家学习。"Studying" happens at home, but is not tied there directionally. 我学习在家。你在上 ...

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Degree complement
... the main reasons to use it: 1. To express '''how''' a verbs verb happened or assess its quality 2. To express '''to what extent''' (or degree) an ...

12 KB (1,800 words) - 08:57, 21 April 2021
Direction complement
... , as they can be used to describe the disposal of an object (what happened to it in the end). Because of this, it's very common to see direction ...

14 KB (2,058 words) - 03:11, 29 December 2020
Basic sentence order
... or Indicating location with "zai" before verbs a location where something happened . We have a video about that: uBaamGzhGuE Don't worry; the more ...

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Structure of numbers
... a unit (like "ten" or "hundred") after it. In the following examples, we'll show what happens when the "tens" place is a zero in a three-digit number ...

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